About the Instructor: David Lee White is a New Jersey based playwright who has worked with Passage Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Vivid Stage, PlayPenn, Writer’s Theatre of NJ, Bristol-Riverside Theatre, as well as many other theatres in the NJ/NY/PA area. For fourteen years, David Lee White was the Associate Artistic Director and Resident Playwright at Passage Theatre in Trenton. In 2016, David was commissioned by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Stage Exchange Program and Passage Theatre to create the play Fixed, based on interviews with mental health care professionals and people suffering from bi-polar and schizoaffective disorders. The play premiered at Passage Theatre in May, 2017. Previously, his Play Blood: A Comedy was seen at Passage Theatre (2009) and Vivid Stage (2012). His play Slippery As Sin also received its world premiere at Passage in 2011. At Passage, David created “Stoop Theatre” with the Trenton High drama club and created the show This Trenton Life which was the subject an Emmy-Award nominated broadcast on PCK Media’s “State Of The Arts.” His solo show Panther Hollow was performed at Vivid Stage, The United Solo Festival in NY, The New Jersey Fringe Festival, Passage Theatre, Arcade Comedy Theatre in Pittsburgh, Point Park College and Drexel University. David has created five shows with composer/writer Kate Brennan – ALiEN8, Clean Slate, Illuminate, Anatomy Of A Flood, Book Of Wonder (a novel and a musical) and The Bleeding Heart Academy For Girls Presents. Together, they are finalists for the Jonathan Larson grant, and recipients of a MAP Fund Award. Their work has been developed at multiple venues around the country, including Passage Theatre, McCarter Theater Center, Bucks County Playhouse, Drexel University, Rider University, Arcadia University and the Forestburgh Playhouse. Another musical, The Angry Grammarian with composer Jeffrey Barg, was produced by Pier Players in Philadelphia. His most recent play, Etiquette, was also produced by Pier Players and received its world premiere from Vivid Stage. His plays Ways To Be Happy, Slippery As Sin and Fixed are published by Next Stage Press. ALiEN8 is published by YouthPLAYS. Several of his one act plays are available through Bloomsbury Methuen, Smith & Kraus and Witherspoon Press. David received his BA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh.